How to Build Industrial Supports, Walkways, and Factory Lighting

You can reinforce the mechanical look of your factory while building safe player walkways using specialized iron casings, angled struts, and toggleable lighting.

Framing with Casings, Trusses, and Girder Struts

1. Replace or cover exposed kinetic parts using industrial iron or weathered iron casings. These casings can be applied to running shafts, cogwheels, and piston poles.

2. Wrap metal trusses and brackets around exposed shafts and fluid pipes to frame them into your walls and ceilings.

3. To build diagonal bracing, use girder struts. Select two separate anchor points on your structure and place the girder strut between them to create an angled, realistic support beam.

4. Lay down Industrial Grating across your support beams to create see-through walkway panels and elevated floor platforms above your machinery.

Adding Lightbulbs and Headlamps

• Lightbulbs: Place lightbulbs along your walkways, walls, or ceilings to illuminate dark corners of the workshop. You can switch a lightbulb between an exposed cage style and an always-on light source depending on how you want the fixture to look and behave.
• Headlamps: If you are building a vehicle or a directional structure, mount a Headlamp on the front. Like fluid pipes, headlamps can be dyed using standard colors to customize the look of your build.